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Chances of Martial Law in Bangladesh? Sheikh Hasina's Party Future? Journalist Arfat Islam Analysis
Chances of Martial Law in Bangladesh? Sheikh Hasina's Party Future? Journalist Arfat Islam Analysis
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00:00But let's talk to Arafat-ul-Islam, you are a journalist, you have been in the Bengali
00:08service of DW, you have covered Bangladesh, you have been there and seen things, so let's
00:14try to know from him what the situation is now and how he is looking at it.
00:19Mr. Arafat, thank you very much for your time.
00:22First, tell us, sir, as we speak, is there any clarity from the army, is there any further
00:29clarification that who will be the head of the government, how long will it be, how long
00:35will it be, when will it be elected, have you received the answers to these basic questions
00:39as we speak?
00:40The news that has just come out is that the opposition leader of Bangladesh, the BNP chairperson
00:47and ex-Prime Minister Khalid Aziz, has received a declaration to release him from the President
00:55Office.
00:56President Mohammad Shah Abidin quoted it and gave a speech in which he also said that Khalid
01:06Aziz and the quota protest movement, the people who were arrested at the time, will be released.
01:18The military has said that an interim government has to be formed, so it will take some time.
01:27But the political leaders, the civil society representatives, the military chief, Waqf-e-Jaman,
01:37had a meeting with the President, so the need to form an interim government is being worked on.
01:45And the student protestors, the anti-discriminatory student movement, they want a unity government
01:55to be formed.
01:56So they are also expecting that within the next 24 hours, a government will be formed.
02:01And the protestors have also said that they do not want a military government to come
02:06and take over.
02:08Is there a fear among the protestors or the opposition parties that Haseena Wajid has
02:15left, but she has already announced that she will not take part in the upcoming elections,
02:20and that the army should sit down or a kind of martial law should be imposed?
02:23Is there such a fear or not?
02:26The protestors have already said that they do not want the result of the protest to be
02:32a military government and they should remain here for an indefinite period.
02:37They have already said that they do not want this.
02:40They want a democratic process.
02:42They want a unity government to be formed.
02:44So that option is already there.
02:47The protestors, the protest leaders, I mean, they are all students.
02:51They said that they do not want anything like this to happen.
02:55If something like this happens, the protest will continue.
02:57After this situation, have they largely dispersed or are they still on the streets saying that
03:02we will not go back until that bad government is formed?
03:06I mean, there was no order to disperse.
03:09They are on the road and a lot of things are happening.
03:12I mean, they have vandalized and torched many establishments like ruling party establishments.
03:21Our military officers are attacked and there are also people died during clashes in Bangladesh even today.
03:29So this is happening, but there has been no announcement yet that they are discontinuing the protest.
03:36Okay.
03:37And what is your analysis on this?
03:39If this election is held in the near future, then Haseena Wajid Sahiba does not seem to come back.
03:43What will be the future of this party?
03:46I mean, in the next election, there will be a candidate from her family or the party will be disbanded.
03:53What do you think?
03:54Whatever the next election will be, if it happens in the near future, then what will be the future of Awami League?
03:59I mean, Sheikh Haseena's son, who lives in the USA, Saudi Bawajid Joy,
04:06he said in an interview that his mother, Sheikh Haseena, will not stay in politics.
04:13So she is done with politics.
04:16So it is true that she will not stay in politics.
04:19What will be the future of this party?
04:21This is a very big question.
04:24Because whatever happened, the protesters say that they demand justice.
04:30So this is the main issue.
04:32Because the quota issue was solved.
04:35But when it was solved, by the time more than 300 people died,
04:40most of them are like protesters.
04:42There were a lot of problems in that.
04:46Tell me, is it right to say that?
04:49200 people died last month.
04:52As much as we have followed it, is it right to say that this issue,
04:57it was a big issue, but it was not such a big issue itself,
05:01that alone this issue was enough to bring down the government.
05:04But since a lot of things were building up,
05:06and then Haseena Wajid did not want to go towards his arrogance,
05:09that he is a razakar, he is a terrorist.
05:11So it all led towards this situation.
05:14Otherwise, maybe it would have been controlled,
05:16and this situation would not have been there today.
05:17Is it right to say that?
05:19It happened like this.
05:22The quota movement was a very small movement before.
05:26It was not such a big issue.
05:29When the High Court said that it has to come back again,
05:33that the quota system has to be reinstated,
05:35but there was also a possibility that the government could change the ratio.
05:40So the government could have solved that issue by June.
05:47But later the government said that it has to be solved in court.
05:51So a few days passed.
05:53And at the same time, the Prime Minister also said something,
05:56which you also mentioned,
05:58and it felt very insulting.
06:01There was a lot of frustration,
06:11there was a lot of disappointment among the protesters.
06:16There were a lot of female protesters on the road.
06:20There were a lot of female protesters in this movement.
06:25It can be seen that the students protested against this issue.
06:32And then the Prime Minister's party also tried to use a lot of force
06:37to close these protesters, to end these protesters.
06:42So this created more problems.
06:45A lot of reasons were added.
06:47Thank you very much.